The ACNH Rant Thread

[Flicky]

Please let the next update contain a way for me to phone my "King/Queen of hide and seek" villagers so I can actually find them. I just want to give you a gift, stop hiding from me

 

[VanitasFan26]

Please let the next update contain a way for me to phone my "King/Queen of hide and seek" villagers so I can actually find them. I just want to give you a gift, stop hiding from me

I remember in New Leaf there was an item called the "Megaphone" which was used to call Villager names, but you had to actually use your voice through the 3DS's mic wherever that was. It was not perfect, sometimes when you call their name they don't hear you, but if you move closer they will hear you but they are like pretty close to you and not so far away.

For New Horizons I would like it to be better if you could call them on your nookphone so that way they will come to the area you're at so you can talk to them. That would really save a lot of time in searching for them.

 

[Moritz]

Please let the next update contain a way for me to phone my "King/Queen of hide and seek" villagers so I can actually find them. I just want to give you a gift, stop hiding from me

I dont want them to add that. Its more fun to hunt.

I want them to remove teleportation
If a villager is in the shop, I want them to walk out the shop, down the path and then into their house instead of poof they're there.
Its cheap and cheating.

 

[Flicky]

I remember in New Leaf there was an item called the "Megaphone" which was used to call Villager names, but you had to actually use your voice through the 3DS's mic wherever that was. It was not perfect, sometimes when you call their name they don't hear you, but if you move closer they will hear you but they are like pretty close to you and not so far away.

For New Horizons I would like it to be better if you could call them on your nookphone so that way they will come to the area you're at so you can talk to them. That would really save a lot of time in searching for them.

I remember that! I used to call my villagers just for fun. Good times.

Something like that would be so useful. Sometimes I've gone through my entire island, the museum, the shops, all of the houses, and still have not been able to find a certain villager. Then, later on, I'll randomly find them in someone's else home, even though that villager wasn't there earlier and I'm just? Where have you been?! Sometimes I just give up entirely, I don't want to spend half an hour looking for a single villager.

 

[Moritz]

I remember that! I used to call my villagers just for fun. Good times.

Something like that would be so useful. Sometimes I've gone through my entire island, the museum, the shops, all of the houses, and still have not been able to find a certain villager. Then, later on, I'll randomly find them in someone's else home, even though that villager wasn't there earlier and I'm just? Where have you been?! Sometimes I just give up entirely, I don't want to spend half an hour looking for a single villager.

If it helps for now, if you save and quit, then reload the game, it will reset them and you will likely find them. Its a lot faster than searching

 

[maria110]

I just realized that I can see my critter models in the Nook Shopping app. But I'd rather they were in the Critterpedia app. With a note field where I could record where they are currently located, lol. I can't find all of them so I must've sold or traded some. Sigh.

 

[Che5hire Cat]

Not sure if I'm in the minority here, but after checking out the hairstyle guide again, I must say I find most of the styles just terrible if not even ugly, especially the male ones. Either they are too spiky, too weirdly round shaped or having those shaved sides, which I dislike tbh. Not even one curly/fluffy one at all (with the exception of that fluffy-ish hairstyle, which got added in one of the updates) or just a simple long-ish/shoulder long style. The female hairstyles are also not better, mostly lame and the lack of styles with bangs which aren't with braids bothers me a lot. The hairstyle I really like and which also fits to my character the most, is the one which you can only unlock if you either don't play the game for a while or just time travel: the "bedhead" one.

I really hope for some more curly/fluffy as well as longer hairstyles in the future, the current selection is just disappointing. I wouldn't mind to even pay bells and answering questions again if a return of Harriet is needed for this to happen (she could work perfectly as a travelling hairdresser imo). Or just give some good looking wigs, I take everything at this point...

 

[bcmii]

Then stop playing the game.
Just move on.
You dont enjoy the game any more, and I dont wish to be rude but you need to just accept it, and get over it.

No game can last forever.
I love this series. I love it enough that I preordered the themed switch, even though I had a switch already.
But no game in the series has kept my attention longer than 3 months.
I think a game that can keep my attention every day for months is an incredible game! That's a huge achievement.

This game has lasted you around a year. You had a good run with it.
But it cannot last forever.
Nothing lasts forever.

Play an older entry in the series.
Play a different game.
But if you can't have fun with this game... forget it even exists.
Youre just making yourself miserable and taking out on the game.

I guess that I expected for the game to keep my attention longer. New Leaf, I consistently played for well over a year...and even after that, I still came back fairly occasionally over the next couple of years. This game, on the other hand, I stopped playing around a month or so after launch, because it is so....flat out boring and lacking in all the things I love about the series (for me it was collecting all the furniture sets that were cut in this one).

We waited so long for this one, and what they released is an unfinished game, with a vague promise of updates to "complete" it---all of which have been less than stellar thus far and have only made miniscule improvements to the game.

You are totally right: it is honestly best for us to move on instead of forcing ourselves to continue playing something that's not making us happy.

 

[rwmw]

there should be an option to clear an area so that you can terraform. it makes absolutely no sense to me that we had to first develop our town before we unlocked terraforming and we can’t put trees/flowers into our inventory. it just makes everything so unnecessarily tedious and hard.

 

[Bluebellie]

I would really like to use the rope fending inside my house. It just lets me store and drop but not place.

 

[Moritz]

I guess that I expected for the game to keep my attention longer. New Leaf, I consistently played for well over a year...and even after that, I still came back fairly occasionally over the next couple of years. This game, on the other hand, I stopped playing around a month or so after launch, because it is so....flat out boring and lacking in all the things I love about the series (for me it was collecting all the furniture sets that were cut in this one).

We waited so long for this one, and what they released is an unfinished game, with a vague promise of updates to "complete" it---all of which have been less than stellar thus far and have only made miniscule improvements to the game.

You are totally right: it is honestly best for us to move on instead of forcing ourselves to continue playing this unfinished and empty game.

See, to many its not unfinished or empty.
I think its the best in the series by a large margin.
New Leaf had me play for 3 months. This has had me for over a year.

But if that's really how you feel, then yeah I do think its best to accept the game does not capture what you want and move on from it.

We've all bought games we've not liked before. We've all had series go in directions we've not liked before.

But there is no use hanging on to something you don't like just because in the past there was joy.

If youre not happy, don't try to force yourself to be. Find something that does make you happy

 

[Airysuit]

I guess I'm a bit sad that this game is not as immersive as the previous ones. Yeah I'm still playing and enjoying it a lot, but I'm enjoying it for different reasons than before. And tbh I'd rather have a game being that immersive again than a game where I can design it exactly the way i want (don't get me wrong i do enjoy it). I'm just not sure if the designy choices are worth cutting so much of the story building stuff...

Especially when I'm playing a fish tourney like today. Why not a contest anymore? Why not an award ceremony? I always really liked the tent during tourneys.

Maybe it's just nostalgic but I fell in love with ac because of the things to do and the stories and characters, not necessarily because you could do decoration and designs (which I also enjoy tho). And I'm sad that a lot of the stuff that got me into the franchise has been taken out.

I know people has said this before but today I was particularly sad about it

 

[SoftCrowbar]

TT_TT I’m already back

why is it so hard for me to find stones?! I have iron nuggets & clay out of my ears but I can’t even find enough stones to make a gravestone. I’m losing my mind I’ve been to five mystery islands today hunting for stones

 

[Lullabynny]

Tried terraforming, stopped 5 minutes in. For a game thats all about decorate and changing your island its really not optimized. Whos smart idea was it to have terraforming be this monotamous task that you do one block at a time. Coul'dve easily made it something like decorating tour house, birds eye view perspective, click and drag an area and bam, instant cliffs. Gonna go back to avoiding this feature like the plague til Im brave enough again.

 

[azurill]

TT_TT I’m already back

why is it so hard for me to find stones?! I have iron nuggets & clay out of my ears but I can’t even find enough stones to make a gravestone. I’m losing my mind I’ve been to five mystery islands today hunting for stones

Usually I can find what I don’t need. Awhile ago I was looking for clay and couldn’t find any. When I started looking for stone all I found was clay.



I don’t like how the last villager to move in won’t ask to leave. I can see them not asking right away but they should be able to ask at some point. The only two villagers I’m willing to let go of are Mint and Midge and Midge was the last to arrive. Mint doesn’t seem like she wants to move.

 

[Starboard]

I've seen people talking about a 2.0 update, is that supposed to be something significant or are they just hoping it is?

I'm still hoping for unbreakable tools and even if they just copy pasted the code from Tortimer's island minigames I'd be happy. I'm not really a fan of when people say to play New Leaf if we want old features because this game has so many improvements that I'd never want to go back to New Leaf for more than a visit. I'd end up getting frustrated with that and missing what New Horizons can give us! It's like a vicious cycle. That's why I wish they had made this one without taking any steps backwards since people really enjoyed the features they removed.

 

[bestfriendsally]

cherry blossom seasons over!

booo!

 

[Burumun]

I've seen people talking about a 2.0 update, is that supposed to be something significant or are they just hoping it is?

Going by version naming conventions, yeah, 2.0 would be a bigger update, but no one knows that the next update won't just be 1.10. I know there were some people hoping we'd get an update this week for the 20th anniversary of the series as a whole on April 14th, but they haven't announced anything yet. Honestly, it reminds me a bit of doomsday cults and the endless "yeah, the predictions didn't come true this time, but they definitely will on this later date". Sure, I was hoping for a big NH anniversary date (I just want to get the café and still have place to put it down, gdi), but since we didn't get that, I'm not optimistic that we'll actually get a big update any time soon, and I've basically given up on them for now.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Going by version naming conventions, yeah, 2.0 would be a bigger update, but no one knows that the next update won't just be 1.10. I know there were some people hoping we'd get an update this week for the 20th anniversary of the series as a whole on April 14th, but they haven't announced anything yet. Honestly, it reminds me a bit of doomsday cults and the endless "yeah, the predictions didn't come true this time, but they definitely will on this later date". Sure, I was hoping for a big NH anniversary date (I just want to get the café and still have place to put it down, gdi), but since we didn't get that, I'm not optimistic that we'll actually get a big update any time soon, and I've basically given up on them for now.

Nintendo hasn't really been up front and honest about what they plan on doing with New Horizons this year. I said this multiple times but if they would've shown us a trailer of what to expect we would not have to be left in the dark expecting what to look forward to. Its just becoming more frustrating at his point.

 

[maria110]

So, cherry blossom season is gone and on my newer island, my player still needs like 8 or 9 of the recipes. Good grief. I played that character a lot during cherry blossom season too. I refuse to spend hours running up and down the *&^%$ beach, so here I am. I have tons of eggs though. *Eye roll* So I got everything from hideous Zipper. I was watching Fruits Basket yesterday and when I saw Momiji, all I could think was "Why can't we have a cute rabbit like that instead of Zipper?"